So . . . apparently we no longer feel the need to blur out knives. Have the rules changed?






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    Finally. I thought it was always so weird to do that because in reality Korean kids are exposed to knifes, people smoking, soju commercials, motels etc just by walking down a street.

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      OMG…can’t believe I just added an “s” to knife instead of writing knives. It’s too early.

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        Ha! I didn’t even notice. You’re right, it must be early.

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      What always cracked me up was that they would blur knives but not guns. And sometimes they were kitchen knives.

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        I remember one time on this drama that I can’t remember the name of, someone fell off the building and died, but they blurred out the blood around the person’s head which MADE NO SENSE at all.

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          You know the other one that cracks me up? Poop! A dog will have an accident, or there will be a shot of a toilet, and the poop will be blurred out.

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      I think it’s that the broadcast stations don’t want to encourage it/hold the responsibility that to have people possible say that their programs are exposing all of this stuff to their younger audiences, no matter how useless their way of blocking it all out is– at least they are trying to do their own part in not giving exposure

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    I don’t know if the rules have changed. I thought Hwayugi was rated for ages 15+ (since most tvN shows are). And I think when a show is rated for more mature audiences, the knife blur rule doesn’t apply. I am not sure about any of this, it is my educated guess.

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      But aren’t all dramas rated 15+? This is the first time I remember not having blurred knives, and they showed up in 2 different shows. But you are right, I need a larger sample size. It may well just be that Money Glower and Hwayugi are rated so that it is OK to show knives.

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